Saturday, February 14, 2009

Futuristic Car

There is a new futuristic car, the Aptera 2e, for sale this October for a price between $25000 - $40000 dollars. This new car is electric, and has three wheels. It has got a top speed of around 90 mph, and has around a range of 100 miles, and you can charge it overnight with a 110 volt outlet apparently. It seems to drive around fine even with its odd shape and design, with plenty of room inside. The car weighs in total around 1700 pounds.

Is the car safe? This car includes frontal and side air bags. Its framework doesn't seem to be too fragile as well, despite the car's fragile appearance. The roof of the development shell managed to support 8 workers on top of it, even after the shell went through the government roof-crush testing.

7 comments:

dbaker said...

That car looks so cool, it looks like something out of a science fiction movie. If it were in my price range I would get it for sure.

Mr. Saerome said...

too bad i dont have money for a car like that
it would be sick to drive one of those around northbrook

new technology is evolving fast

KaTe said...

This is a really cool car. I think that if they lowered the price some that people might consider getting it. The car does look like it belongs in like star wars or something.

C. Carlisle said...

I think the idea and development of electric cars is one that may one day help to ween our country off of fossil fuels. Especially if the home or fueling station in the car could use fuel cell as well as alternative energy (solar, wind, etc) to produce the energy for the vehicle.

Jess said...

Yeah, that car does look cool. It would be so weird to see it on the roads though because everyone's not used to seeing that type of model.

. said...

I just hope they can mass-produce this without getting in trouble with the government.

rmargolin said...

That car looks really cool. The only thing is that I think it would be awkward to drive it around because of how much it would stick out.